Prerequisites

Course Objectives

This five-day course equips experienced VMware vSphere® administrators with the knowledge to use the automation tools that all vSphere customers have access to. Using real-world use cases and examples, students learn how to automate day-to-day administration tasks with VMware vSphere® PowerCLI™ and VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™. In this class, you use these tools to automate tasks in a lab environment.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Describe the features and benefits of automation in a vSphere environment

Understand the role of the vSphere Web services API in automation

Use the Managed Object Browser to view the structure of the vSphere Web services API and the VMware vCenter Server™ inventory

Use vSphere PowerCLI to deploy and manage virtual machines and virtual infrastructure